05.11.2013 20:21, Mark Felder wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013, at 11:37, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
On 11/05/13 12:31, Allan Jude wrote:
This came up in discussion on IRC and I thought I should throw it at the
list so I don't forget.
A user was asking how to do what linux cron does, where there is a
directory /etc/cron.d/ that packages and add files to to create crontabs.
Making FreeBSD's cron (Vixie Cron) include /etc/cron.d/ and
/usr/local/etc/cron.d/ in the /etc/crontab format seems like a very
useful feature, especially for pkg(8) as it makes it easy and safe to
programatically add and remove crontabs as part of a package.
Shouldn't we encourage packages to use periodic(8) when possible?
Yes but our default periodic configuration in /etc/crontab is only
configured to be as granular as daily. If this is something that should
run hourly or at very strange intervals then cron is a better choice.
So why we shouldn't add something like:
0 * * * * root periodic hourly
@reboot root periodic reboot
I already do this on some machines to take hourly and boot snapshots
with zfSnap. And I think periodic is much better place for such tasks.
--
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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